It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

The Buddha and all sentient beings are nothing but expressions of the one mind. There is nothing else.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.

When the heart is still, it can be kind. When the mind is still, it can see clearly.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Zen is a way of life, not a theory or a piece of knowledge to be stored away in our minds.

The practice of Buddhism is fundamentally a practice of expanding our happiness and diminishing our suffering.

Appearances are mind, mind itself is emptiness, emptiness itself is spontaneous presence.

The person who clings to nothing of the past, present and future, who has no attachment and no aversion, has no conceptual imprints.

Don't try to push away the darkness. Just light a lamp. The darkness will disappear by itself.

The essence of all phenomena is empty and clear like space. The nature of mind is awareness-emptiness like the sun and sky.

The path to enlightenment is not a path at all. It is a realization that where you are is where you have always been.

Every moment of confusion is also a moment of wisdom, if we can learn to recognize it.

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

The Four Noble Truths are not mere doctrinal propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our lives.

Zen is not necessarily against words, but it is well aware of their limitations.

The dharma is not in the books. If you want to find the dharma, look in your mind.

The more precisely you note, the more clearly you understand. The more clearly you understand, the stronger your insight becomes.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

The five aggregates are not a theoretical model but a description of lived experience to be investigated through mindfulness.

Enlightenment is the realization that we were never really separate from one another or from all of life.

Happiness is found in the simplest of things. It is not in the things you own, but in the love you share.

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

There are many ways to meditate. But at the heart of them all is mindfulness.

To live – is that not enough? To love – is that not everything?

Real freedom is not about controlling our experience, but about being free within our experience.

The nature of mind is clearer than the sky, yet we keep looking elsewhere.

To live fully is to let go and die with each step.